Monday, December 3, 2012

DUPAGE WOODWORKERS MAKE TOYS FOR NEEDY CHILDREN

Dale Gustafson (left) and Rick Ogren (right) of the DuPageWoodworkers Club

We at the Humanitarian Service
Project were ecstatic Friday to receive a truckload of wooden toys from the
DuPage Woodworkers Club. HSP provides
birthday and Christmas presents to those children living in poverty. Currently,
we serve 900 children with a 20-25 lb. “birthday box” each year, and will serve
at least, 1,200 children with Christmas gifts this year. We would like to sincerely
thank Rick Ogren and Dale Gustafson who dropped off the 1168 toys to our site
in Carol Stream, and the rest of the club for helping us
serve these needy children.

Club members Rick Ogren and Stan Anderson are the
volunteer organizers of this year- long toy project. They have been doing this project for six
years. Rick recalled that the first year
they ran the project they had 76 toys and this year they have made over 4,000.
In addition to HSP, the club supports five
other charities through this drive. The other charities that will be receiving
toys from this club are Mutual Ground in Aurora, Downers Grove Family Shelter, The
Darien Lions Club, Saint James the Apostle Church, and Midlothian School
District 143 special needs program. The club handcrafts each toy, either as an individual
or through three yearly group events where they make the toys in an assembly
line. Dale, the club president, says, “Everybody has a great time making the
toys each year and they are genuinely proud of their handiwork.” The club is
always in the need of monetary donations as well as material donations to help
them to continue their efforts.

We
would like to thank again this dedicated group for helping us make a difference
in these needy children’s lives.

For more information on The DuPage Woodworkers Club,
visit their website. http://www.dupagewoodworkers.org

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It is the mission of the Humanitarian Service Project to alleviate the pain and suffering that poverty brings to seniors and children in DuPage and Kane Counties, Illinois, without discrimination or exclusion for any reason.